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...weeklong series of events. They're even about to commemorate the 40th anniversary. Granted, their takeover has probably been harder to recover from, since it deals not just with rowdy students hating on the administration, but also racial issues. The Afro-American Society--all of a couple of dozen students--was protesting worse academic conditions for black students. But when they were taking over the student union, one former protester says, they did so very politely...
This isn't the last takeover that Harvard has seen, though. In 2001, several dozen students took over Massachusetts Hall to protest low wages for janitors and dining hall and maintenance workers. Faced with a tense budget situation again this time around, the Student Labor Action Movement appears to be gearing up—handing President Faust a letter at a recent lunch meeting in Eliot. But there's a long way to go between envelopes and building takeovers...
...trawlers the pirates use were probably seized during their raids. Most research indicates that one out of three attempts by the pirates to hijack a ship succeeds. Covering enough ground to seize 120 vessels a year based on 400 attempts means that the pirates are probably running a dozen mother ships at any one time. The costs to "buy" and maintain those ships is about $3 million each per year, because a trawler that is seized for use and not ransomed is $3 million in revenue not taken in. Mother ship costs are at least $30 million, maybe $36 million...
...answer that question, Chambers gathered a couple of dozen competitive and recreational cyclists and put them on bikes in his lab. He asked one group to rinse with a sugar-based drink and another to rinse with an artificially sweetened drink. Then he took a third group of volunteers, asked each of them to rinse with the same solutions, and put them through an MRI scanner to see whether their brain reacted similarly to the two beverages...
...scandals or sports teams made little difference in determining the final list. “We were concerned that if we talked about media overall that the sports institutions would skew the data in their favor,” Payack said. “It seems that having a dozen or so Nobel laureates creates more buzz globally than do sports teams.” Payack also suggested that the University’s decision to change the John F. Kennedy School of Government to the Harvard Kennedy School may have had some bearing. “It never hurts...